Updated at December 11, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Katharine Graham |
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Birthdate | June 16, 1917 |
Birth Place | New York |
Age (in 2024) | 107 Years Old |
Zodiac | Gemini |
Occupation | Journalist |
Katharine Graham is best known as Journalist who has born on June 16, 1917 in New York. Currently, Katharine Graham is 107 years, 5 months and 25 days old. Katharine Graham will celebrate 108th birthday on Monday, 16th of June 2025. Below the countdown to Katharine Graham upcoming birthday.
American publisher who ran The Washington Post for more than twenty years and oversaw the coverage of the Watergate scandal.
She attended Vassar College and later transferred to the University of Chicago. Her family bought the Post in 1933, and she began working there in 1938.
Her memoir, Personal History, was published in 1997 and she won a Pulitzer Prize for it.
She was married to Philip Graham from 1940 to 1963, and they had four children.
She was a longtime personal friend of entrepreneur Warren Buffett.
Katharine Graham is 107 years old today.
Katharine Graham was born on June 16, 1917 in New York.
Katharine Graham zodiac sign is Gemini.
Katharine Graham was best known as Journalist.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Katharine Graham's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Katharine Graham's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1972 | The largest single-site hydroelectric power project in Canada is inaugurated at Churchill Falls Generating Station. |
1976 | Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd. |
1977 | Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL), by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. |
1981 | US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor. |
1989 | Revolutions of 1989: Imre Nagy, the former Hungarian prime minister, is reburied in Budapest following the collapse of Communism in Hungary. |
1997 | Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria. |
2000 | The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22Â years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon. |
2002 | Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. |
2010 | Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco. |
2012 | China successfully launches its Shenzhou 9 spacecraft, carrying three astronauts, including the first female Chinese astronaut Liu Yang, to the Tiangong-1 orbital module. |
2012 | The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. |
2013 | A multi-day cloudburst, centered on the North Indian state of Uttarakhand, causes devastating floods and landslides, becoming the country's worst natural disaster since the 2004 tsunami. |
2015 | American businessman Donald Trump announces his campaign to run for President of the United States in the upcoming election. |
2016 | Shanghai Disneyland Park, the first Disney Park in Mainland China, opens to the public. |
2019 | Upwards of 2,000,000 people participate in the 2019-20 Hong Kong protests, the largest in Hong Kong's history. |
1991 | The birth of Siya Kolisi, South African rugby player |
1991 | The birth of Matt Moylan, Australian rugby league player |
1992 | The birth of Vladimir Morozov, Russian swimmer |
1993 | The birth of Park Bo-gum, South Korean actor |
1993 | The birth of Gnash, American singer, songwriter, rapper, DJ and record producer |
1994 | The birth of Grete-Lilijane Küppas, Estonian footballer |
1994 | The birth of Rezar, Albanian professional wrestler |
1995 | The birth of Euan Aitken, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Akira Ioane, New Zealand rugby Union player |
1995 | The birth of Joseph Schooling, Singaporean swimmer |
1995 | The birth of Ki Hui-hyeon, South Korean singer-songwriter and actress |
1998 | The birth of Karman Thandi, Indian tennis player |
2000 | The birth of Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player |
2002 | The birth of Sam Walker, English-Australian rugby league player |
2003 | The birth of Anna Cathcart, Canadian actress |
2012 | The death of Jorge Lankenau, Mexican banker and businessman (b. 1944) |
2012 | The death of SÅ‚awomir Petelicki, Polish general (b. 1946) |
2012 | The death of Susan Tyrrell, American actress (b. 1945) |
2013 | The death of Sam Farber, American businessman, co-founded OXO (b. 1924) |
2013 | The death of Hans Hass, Austrian biologist and diver (b. 1919) |
2013 | The death of Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, Bangladesh poet and academic (b. 1950) |
2013 | The death of Norman Ian MacKenzie, English journalist and author (b. 1921) |
2013 | The death of Ottmar Walter, German footballer (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Tony Gwynn, American baseball player and coach (b. 1960) |
2014 | The death of Cándido Muatetema Rivas (b. 1960), Equatoguinean politician and diplomat, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea |
2015 | The death of Charles Correa, Indian architect and urban planner (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Jean Vautrin, French director, screenwriter, and critic (b. 1933) |
2016 | The death of Jo Cox, English political activist and MP (b. 1974) |
2017 | The death of Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1930) |
2020 | The death of Eduardo Cojuangco Jr., Filipino businessman and politician (b. 1935) |
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